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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1916
Page
2
Mrs. Jay Rhoades of Newton Missouri credits Cardui the woman’s tonic with curing years of right side pain and severe spells. She says since starting July first she has had no bad episodes and can work normally. Cardui is advertised as a long used remedy for women’s ailments.
An advertisement claims catarrhal deafness stems from mucous membrane inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured locally. It urges a constitutional remedy Hall's Catarrh Cure, sold by Cheney & Co of Toledo, promises a $100 reward for any cure it cannot achieve and offers free circulars and cups.
Evansville Indiana market notices list prices for wheat corn potatoes eggs and butter with per bushel and per hundredweight quotes. Grain oats rye and hay compactly shown alongside cattle hogs and hayline figures including wheat at 1.50 per bu and corn at 0.80 per bu. clover and other feeds priced, giving poultry milk and livestock values in a concise historical trade snapshot.
Analyzes unions pushing for shorter trains to raise wages and speed. The piece argues this would raise costs, require more personnel and facilities, and shift burden to American industry, with coal and bulk freight dominating eastern tonnage. Claims most traffic is low grade and slow moving at low rates, benefiting public service.
Reports from Dabola County Fair week describe dusty grounds after road sprinkling from First to Washington. Exhibits impressed with Kornrumph & Welp and Beckmann & Sauer while local contractors near completion of rock road grading ahead of winter. odds and ends cover land grants, Indiana Regiment duty, oiling road preservation, and Harvest Queen flour bread flavor plus upcoming factory employment hopes in Ferdinand.
Congress directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate how mail is paid for by railroads. The ICC will report on weight versus space based payments and fix rates. Railroads have long claimed underpayment and multi million dollar losses under the current system.
If conditions require government to regulate rates, economic analysis obliges similar wage regulation. After taking one step the authority should proceed with the other, following the logic of events.
Interstate Commerce Commission reports only one in five hundred train workers exceeded sixteen hours on duty in a day during the year to June 30. Excess service totaled 1,247 cases, far below 2014 and 2013, as railroads cooperate to curb long shifts and improve hours of service nationwide.
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